Venezuela is home to a wide variety of landscapes, such as the north-easternmost extensions of the Andes mountains in the northwest and along the northern Caribbean coast, of which the highest point is the Pico Bolívar at 4,981 metres (16,341 ft).

Venezuela's national symbols are the the Flag, the Coat of Arms, and the National Anthem.

Venezuela they exercised their ministry with fruitful results; and when the conquest was completed, they still continued their mission with the greatest zeal.

Venezuela was that of Caro, founded pursuant to a Bull of Clement VII which was published 21 July, 1531.

Venezuela, though this union has suffered the trials incidental to modernpolitical ideas, trials which with each repetition render the situation of the Church in its relations with the civil power more precarious.

Venezuela, the "Saudi Arabia of LatinAmerica", was named in 2005 as "the leading Latin American nation to be alarmed about" by Porter Goss, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Eva Golinger reported (http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1378) February 16, 2006, for Venezuelanalysis.com.

Considering Venezuela as a 'flashpoint' in 2005, the CIA Director alleged that President [Hugo] Chávez 'is consolidating his power by using technically legal tactics to target his opponents and meddling in the region.' Goss also raised alarm that Chávez is 'supported by [Cuba's] [Fidel] Castro'," Golinger wrote (http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1378).

Venezuela faced a supposed coup in 2002 - brought on by an alliance of the country's oil and media industries and America's CIA in cahoots with the NED in order to stop or subvert President Hugo Chavez's social and political reforms.

www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Venezuela (921 words)

Nutrition country profiles: Venezuela summary(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)

The nutritional status of children under 5 years old allows for Venezuela to be placed in the low or acceptable range, defined by the international parameters, such as in 1999 with 4.7% of underweight, 13.6% of stunting and 3% of wasting.

From 1999 Venezuela reached the indicators to be declared a country virtually free of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD), after specifically fulfilling a program of salt iodisation and control of iodine in the urine among the scholastic population in organizations identified with goitre endemic (Andean Region.

The indicated dimension of poverty for the food and nutrition situation of Venezuela is partly due to the result of the deterioration of the socioeconomic atmosphere that followed the petroleum crisis of the 1979: Inflation levels increased considerably whereas the spending power of the population decreased.

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was born in the town of Sabaneta, State of Barinas, Venezuela, on 28 July 1954.

Venezuela responded it was protecting its territory, but in fact, is thought to be sympathetic to the leftist guerrillas who regard VenezuelanPresident Hugo Chavez as an ideological ally.

Venezuela has been supplying Cuba with 53,000 barrels of oil a day at reduced prices in exchange for the services of Cuban doctors, paramedics, teachers, workers, and other technicians who participate in internationalist missions.

www.globalsecurity.org /intell/ops/venezuela.htm (4200 words)

The EU's relations with Venezuela - Overview(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)

Venezuela’s2005 GDP of approximately $106 billion made it the biggest economy in the Andean Community, and the fourth biggest in LatinAmerica.

Venezuela announced its intention to withdraw from the Andean Community in April 2006.

Venezuela’s foreign trade policy mainly revolves around a desire to diversify exports and gain access to new markets in order to ensure that economic benefits are shared out in a more balanced fashion in society.

Energy experts reportedly believe that Venezuela is shipping less oil than it claims as a result of lagging maintenance at the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., the internal resources of which allegedly have been sapped by corruption, mismanagement, and the diversion of profits to social programs and government officials.

Venezuela's fiscal burden of government is 0.7 point worse this year.

The World Bank reports that Venezuela's weighted average tariff rate in 2004 was 11 percent, down from the 11.3 percent for 2000 reported in the 2005 Index.

Venezuela was a relatively neglected colony in the 1500s and 1600s as the Spaniards focused on extracting gold and silver from other areas of the Americas.

Venezuela is currently advocating regional integration through its PetroCaribe and PetroSur petroleum initiatives, the creation of a South American Community of Nations, and the establishment of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (a social integration project proposed by PresidentChavez as an alternative to the Free Trade Area of the Americas).

Venezuela is a minor sourcecountry for opium poppy and coca but a major transit country for cocaine and heroin.

In Venezuela, while there have been coups and thus struggle against capital and also external imperialism, at the moment the struggle seems to be more against the imprint of the past on even poor people's habits and beliefs.

Venezuela has also embarked on a continental station, to broadcast news and the voices of the poor throughout LatinAmerica, but we didn't have a chance to visit so as to comment on that.

Another difference, however, is that in Venezuela the method of decision-making adopted for the recuperated plants is called co-management and involves both a workers council and government representatives.

Possessing shorelines on the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, Venezuela borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east and Brazil to the south, and is situated on the major sea and air routes linking North and South America.

Venezuela and Cuba accused Washington on Wednesday of shielding a terrorist after a judge threw out immigration fraud charges against a man wanted in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner.

Venezuela's ambassador to the Organization of American States accused Washington on Wednesday of protecting alleged terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, drawing a sharp reply from the lead U.S. diplomat at the session.

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez told U.S. officials to "Go to hell, gringos!" and called Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "missy" on his weekly radio and TV show Sunday, lashing out at Washington for what he called unacceptable meddling in Venezuelan affairs.

As part of an international day of action, the Hands Off Venezuela campaign hosted successful events in four Canadiancities to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the Bolivarian referendum victory on 15 August.

Caracas, Sep 5 Venezuela is promoting cooperation with other nations in its fight against drug traffic, a strategy that has already had concrete results with the latest seizure of 3.3 tons of cocaine, said...

Caracas, Sep 4 The integration of the organizations supporting the reelection of VenezuelanPresident Hugo Chavez, grouped in the Miranda Command Campaign, is in its final stage, Francisco Ameliach, head of...